Does the Dead Sea Scrolls prove the authenticity of the Bible?
This subject is covered in a tangential manner on the “Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth” page here: http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/ Mark Smith touches on it in his book: The Origins of Biblical Monotheism; Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts. Here’s one of the many relevant quotes: ——— “Biblical texts do attest to Yahweh and El as different gods sanctioned by early Israel. For example, Genesis 49:24-25 presents a series of El epithets separate from the mention of Yahweh in verse 18. This passage does not show the relative status of the two gods in early Israel, only that they could be named separately in the same poem. More helpful is the text of the Septuagint and one of the Dead Sea Scrolls (4QDeut) [both written BC] for Deuteronomy 32:8-9, which cast Yahweh in the role of one of the divine sons, understood as fathered by El, called Elyon if the first line: When the Most High (Elyon) allotted peoples for inheritance, When He divided up humanity, He fixed
